This cute little blooper slipped by the editors - from the New York Times:
Saudi Textbook Withdrawn Over Image of Yoda With King
High school students in Saudi Arabia opened their social studies textbooks this week to find that the Force was with them.
In a lesson about the United Nations was a historic photograph of King Faisal. To his right stood Yoda, the Jedi master from the “Star Wars” films.
One ruled Saudi Arabia for 11 years, outlawed slavery, spread public education and introduced television to his country.
The other was adept with a light saber, trained Luke Skywalker and lived for more than 800 years.
How they had ended up together in a textbook in a country with no public movie theaters was anyone’s guess. Even the Saudi artist who created the image had no idea.
"I am the one who designed it, but I am not the one who put it in the book,” said the artist, Abdullah Al Shehri, by phone from Riyadh.
The image was part of a series in which Mr. Shehri, who is 26 and goes by the nickname Shaweesh, mixes pop culture icons into historic photographs. He said he got the idea while looking through photo archives from the Middle East.
Here is Shaweesh's image:
The actual scene is from the signing the United Nations Charter in San Francisco in 1945. Quite the moment in history.
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